Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc...
by jxramos on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:08PM
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I think we have too much cultural habits, marketing suggestions, etc etc around the whole notion of "more is better". So more complexity, more gadgets, more yada yada without ever going back and checking the premises and accuracy of these things and their claims along the way. We get stuck in these "dwell points of the ideal" where we assume because something is deployed that it's in some ideal operating state and take a bunch of stuff for granted at that point.
* people irrationally tend to add rather than remove complexity to solve problems
* experts' decision accuracy improves faster with more information than their personal evaluation of / comfort with those decisions
* people asked to evaluate the contents of a picture repeatedly while being shown increasingly faithful renderings who are shown worse (unusable) renderings of the picture to begin with are slower to reach an accurate evaluation overall
As a general observation on medical care, Team USA has been slow to adopt the practice of weighing absorbent materials during procedures including childbirth to measure blood / fluid loss and this has had measurable, negative outcomes for patients.